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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Spark job to be able to access, read and write on external database without the credentials being exposed anywhere (instance, logs, job metadata, etc…)

We want to create a job on a Spark instance of the Analytics Engine powered by Apache Spark that runs a Spark application reading from and writing to an Exasol database. To enable database access, we need to pass our user credentials into the job....
about 1 month ago in Analytics Engine 0 Submitted

Ability to paste '-' characters as 0.

0 values formatted as a '-' in Excel cannot be pasted into Planning Analytics. This causes a spreading error. Users often format 0 values as a '-'. It would be helpful if Planning Analytics could interpret '-' as a 0 on paste.
29 days ago in Analytics Engine 0 Submitted

Comprehensive Rollback Solution for IBM FTM Version Upgrades

Currently, when post-upgrade issues such as performance degradation emerge after several days in production, only application components can be reverted easily—leaving clients to navigate database backup and restoration processes manually. Any bac...
7 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 2 Under review

Add a Trace Security in order to understand how a right is evaluated by the engine

As for business rules, PAL/TM1, security could be a mix of data and/or rules on the system security objects. For business rules, we can use the "trace calculations" which is really a great feature. For security, we can only use... our brain so a "...
over 2 years ago in Analytics Engine 3 Not under consideration

When we look at some message in OAC screen and exit it, we return to the home screen and not to the message itself or to the screen where the message we last viewed is

Returning from a message should allow you to stay on the same message you were viewing, that is, stay on the screen where you were (by returning, you lose track of which line you were on) , our proposal is to somehow mark the message that was view...
almost 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

Visible Owner ID of message on OAC screen

we don't have visible owner ID when viewing the message, it is important to find out to which user group it belongs to
over 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

MDE Job is failed with error "Deployment not found with given id"

We found the issue related to the Spark/MDE blocker issue. MDE job triggered a spark-runtime deployment first The spark-runtime deployment then triggered corresponding spark-master/worker pods If the 1st spark-master/worker pod does not come up wi...
over 1 year ago in Analytics Engine 0 Under review

FTM DB and Datasharing recommendation

Business continuity, High Availability, Scalability, and Performance lead the decision to go with a multi-instance topology, running more than one Financial Transaction Manager instance two or more logical partitions, sharing the same FTM Database...
over 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

To encrypt all the data in FTM tables.

The client has identified a risk and asked us to implement encryption for all data stored in FTM (Financial Transaction Manager) tables in the FTM version 3.2.12 on z/OS
5 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Functionality already exists

Mark in FTM Base the master message that is sent to MER for printing

The problem is when users have several messages to send from FTM Base to MER for print. In the meantime they receive another message and when they return to search again, they lose track of which message they were on and it can happen that the scr...
almost 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration